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Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
2010-05-14
Seven Die in Violence in Northern Mexico

Seven people died in violence likely related to the illegal drug business, according to Mexican press reports. The dead include a local politician in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
  • Three unidentified men were found in the beginning stages of decomposition in an arroyo near Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The found at the breach of the Horcasitas station at kilometer marker 186 on the highway to Delicias.

    CIPOL agents at the scene say the three men were shot to death. Two of them were decapitated from the shootings. Police agents also found 40 empty weapon casings at the scene, according to the report.

  • Two people were executed at a taqueria, El Güero, at 12:30 Thursday. Investigators at the scene were told men from a light truck pulled up and started shooting. One victim died inside the restaurant, while the other died while fleeing.

    Investigators could not get a description of the shooters from people at the store, according to the news report.

    The Partido Acción Nacional ( PAN ) politician and gubernatorial candidate for Chihuahua, Carlos Borruel, was at the same location just three hours before the attack.

  • A female agent of the Procuradurã General de Justicia Estado ( PGJE ) was shot several times and killed in a mid morning attack, according to Mexican press reports.

    The attack took place near the PGJE offices in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Zoel Lara, apparently a crime scene investigator, died an hour after the attack. Investigators said she was shot seven times with a 9mm weapon.

    Differing press accounts say the woman was forcibly removed by an armed group from her vehicle, forced to her knees and then shot. The shooters were in a gray Chevrolet Surburban. Following the attack, the shooters escaped via Independence street in the direction of the Teofilo Borunda.

    The PGJE is similar to an state attorney general.

  • PAN politician and mayoral candidate for Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Luis Mario Guajardo, was found shot to death today, according to Mexican press reports.

    The businessman was found in a light truck along with his son, Jose Mario Guajardo Varela, and apparently a nephew at the agro company property Guajardo Industries. The company was owned by the victim.
Posted by:badanov

#3  Is there ANYTHING up at US State Dept about this (or any other govt agency)? I dint see any with a cursory look.

If it were SE Asia, or equatorial Africa, there would be all kinds of travel warnings with this sort of sustained violence and number of fatalities.

If I read these semi-daily "Mexican Mayhem" reports correctly, there is more of this sort of violence on a daily basis in Mexico than there is in Iraq right now.

Why has the US Press been silent? Why is the government not pointing this out to protect its own citizens who liven on the border with Mexico or who travel there?

This is a political travesty. The editors deciding to 86 this story should be strung up and used as pinatas.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-05-14 23:22  

#2  Machete: The commies in Hollywood doing what they can to make matters worse.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-05-14 12:23  

#1  Machete Trailer
Posted by: tipper   2010-05-14 08:11  

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